Wednesday, November 1, 2017

What Colleges Want from an ApplicantThe admissions process is out of whack. Just ask the heartbroken applicant, rejected by her dream school. Ask high school counselors, who complain that colleges don’t reward promising students for their creativity, determination or service to others. Even the gatekeepers at some famous institutions acknowledge, quietly, that the selection system is broken.Ask five people how to fix it, though, and they’ll give five different answers. Sure, you might think colleges put too much stock in the SAT, but your neighbor’s kid with the near-perfect score thinks it should matter a lot. More than half of Americans say colleges shouldn’t give children of alumni a leg up, according to a recent Gallup poll; yet nearly half say parental connections should be at least a “minor factor.”

Tuesday, August 1, 2017

- Complete episode 12 questions from Serial
- Watch and discuss the short videos on Plato (What is real?) and Descartes (Can We Be Certain?)
- Watch and answer philosophical questions from The Truman Show

Friday, July 28, 2017

- Listen, read, and discuss episode 11, Rumors from Serial.
- Written response to the episode- Notes on news cast on ISIS
- Take very good notes on the news cast
- Open note test on the news cast tomorrow